(Oct 8, 2022 05:57 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]1 lane is open for cars on the bridge
expensive looking cars
queue of cars leaving crimea
burnt out rail cars still where they were blocking the rail line
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/stat...5746577408
Probably VIPs and Russian tourists hightailing it out of there while they still can. That surviving roadway might exclusively be appropriated by the military later on, going in the opposite direction, for transporting supplies or whatever. Or the reconstruction equipment and work crews may crucially need it and hog it for their efforts, obstructing everything else out of necessity and higher priority.
(Oct 8, 2022 07:02 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ] (Oct 8, 2022 05:57 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]1 lane is open for cars on the bridge
expensive looking cars
queue of cars leaving crimea
burnt out rail cars still where they were blocking the rail line
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/stat...5746577408
Probably VIPs and Russian tourists hightailing it out of there while they still can. That surviving roadway might exclusively be appropriated by the military later on, going in the opposite direction, for transporting supplies or whatever. Or the reconstruction equipment and work crews may crucially need it and hog it for their efforts, obstructing everything else out of necessity and higher priority.
I'd beg the question of "what construction crew?", Wouldn't have they been "Activated" for military service? I guess Russia should be looking into how it can woo women into the workplace, but since Putins a mysgonist that's going to be difficult.
(Oct 8, 2022 08:16 PM)stryder Wrote: [ -> ] (Oct 8, 2022 07:02 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ] (Oct 8, 2022 05:57 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]1 lane is open for cars on the bridge
expensive looking cars
queue of cars leaving crimea
burnt out rail cars still where they were blocking the rail line
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/stat...5746577408
Probably VIPs and Russian tourists hightailing it out of there while they still can. That surviving roadway might exclusively be appropriated by the military later on, going in the opposite direction, for transporting supplies or whatever. Or the reconstruction equipment and work crews may crucially need it and hog it for their efforts, obstructing everything else out of necessity and higher priority.
I'd beg the question of "what construction crew?", Wouldn't have they been "Activated" for military service? I guess Russia should be looking into how it can woo women into the workplace, but since Putins a mysgonist that's going to be difficult.
hopefully Ukraine can hit it again, but a 2nd strike like this would be very difficult.
a medium sized oil tanker set on auto pilot rammed under the rail bridge and into the road bridge then set on fire
if you picked the right size it would run the bow under the rail bridge and jam into the road bridge then while burning would destroy the rail bridge.
if it was in range . . .
in the mean time kamikaze drones into the fuel wagons stuck on top
switchblade-600 might ignite a fuel carriage
i wonder if a neptune missile would have the range to hit the rail cars
as word of this strike spreads among the Orcs it will sew panic and the panic will sew panic
in the mean time ... hopefully ukraine is securely and safely moving its long range artillery forward a little to reach entrenched orcs.
(Oct 8, 2022 10:59 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ][...] a medium sized oil tanker set on auto pilot rammed under the rail bridge and into the road bridge then set on fire
if you picked the right size it would run the bow under the rail bridge and jam into the road bridge then while burning would destroy the rail bridge. [...]
Surprising that explosive-laden marine drones and autonomous ships haven't been used more to knock out water adjacent structures. Or maybe they have, and I just haven't kept up.
Wikipedia already has its "
Crimean Bridge explosion" entry up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Crime..._explosion
(Oct 8, 2022 11:43 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ] (Oct 8, 2022 10:59 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ][...] a medium sized oil tanker set on auto pilot rammed under the rail bridge and into the road bridge then set on fire
if you picked the right size it would run the bow under the rail bridge and jam into the road bridge then while burning would destroy the rail bridge. [...]
Surprising that explosive-laden marine drones and autonomous ships haven't been used more to knock out water adjacent structures. Or maybe they have, and I just haven't kept up.
Wikipedia already has its "Crimean Bridge explosion" entry up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Crime..._explosion
Heres one thing for you conspiracy buffs.
Which way was the truck travelling?
From a look at the map and viewing the CCTV footage, it actually appears the truck was travelling to Crimea from Russia (E to W), not the otherway around.
(Oct 9, 2022 12:25 AM)stryder Wrote: [ -> ] (Oct 8, 2022 11:43 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ] (Oct 8, 2022 10:59 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ][...] a medium sized oil tanker set on auto pilot rammed under the rail bridge and into the road bridge then set on fire
if you picked the right size it would run the bow under the rail bridge and jam into the road bridge then while burning would destroy the rail bridge. [...]
Surprising that explosive-laden marine drones and autonomous ships haven't been used more to knock out water adjacent structures. Or maybe they have, and I just haven't kept up.
Wikipedia already has its "Crimean Bridge explosion" entry up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Crime..._explosion
Heres one thing for you conspiracy buffs.
Which way was the truck travelling?
From a look at the map and viewing the CCTV footage, it actually appears the truck was travelling to Crimea from Russia (E to W), not the otherway around.
i dont think it was a truck bomb
i think it was a ship or submersible bomb exploding from under neath the bridge
crimea Orcs Panic buying petrol
panic buying petrol
(Oct 9, 2022 02:13 AM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ] (Oct 9, 2022 12:25 AM)stryder Wrote: [ -> ]Heres one thing for you conspiracy buffs.
Which way was the truck travelling?
From a look at the map and viewing the CCTV footage, it actually appears the truck was travelling to Crimea from Russia (E to W), not the otherway around.
i dont think it was a truck bomb
i think it was a ship or submersible bomb exploding from under neath the bridge
crimea Orcs Panic buying petrol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4YllwJMB00
panic buying petrol
Ironically, Vlad himself drove a truck over the bridge when it opened in 2018, to mark the occasion.
Putin drives truck across new Russia-Crimea bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgmJrvcKtVI
Even when the video is played in slow motion, it's not clear the truck was the source of the explosion any more than the car happening to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. But still, that area and that side of the bridge is the one that bought the farm.
Wouldn't necessarily have to be an Islamic suicide volunteer that Ukraine recruited from embittered Dagestan or Chechnya. The truck might have been autonomous during the last stretch. Given the amount of explosive on it (i.e. stuffed to the brim), the driver couldn't be an innocent unaware of what he was packing, before deserting it at some point.
Footage of suicide bomber truck filled with explosives detonated at the Crimean Bridge
https://youtu.be/rFk_dyQgvFM
Why blowing up the Crimea bridge is a double blow for Putin
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...explosion/
EXCERPT:
. . . until now it seemed unthinkable - for both practical and political reasons. Practically, because blowing up a bridge is at the best of times extremely difficult.
The Kerch strait lies at least 190 miles from the nearest Ukrainian-controlled territory - putting it out of range of nearly all the heavy ordnance Kyiv is known to possess.
It was heavily defended by air defence missile systems, making a potential airstrike a kamikaze mission. The maritime approaches on both the Azov and Black Sea sides of the strait are tightly controlled by the Russian surface fleet.
The waves beneath are supposedly patrolled by killer-dolphins specially trained to hunt down enemy frogmen. Tight security at either end should have prevented anyone from attacking by land. It should have been the hardest of targets.
[...] Russia’s transport ministry said trains would be running by evening, and that the surviving east-bound lane of the road bridge would also be reopened for traffic in both directions. But the vulnerability of those supply chains has been exposed.
Such a public blow to Mr Putin’s prestige demands a public response. He will be under pressure to do something dramatic to assuage both the shaken general public, and the vocal, hard-line minority of war enthusiasts he increasingly relies on.
Ukrainian officials - and their allies in Western capitals - will be bracing for something violent.